This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HANSEN MULLEN-GROSS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADI/975.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Andrew, Thank you for your help. My message was my attempt at a little saracasm what with so many pages of obituaries. i realize how important they can be for someone researching that surname. By the way in your experience have you seen any business directories for Eureka in the late 1890's and before April of 1901. It is a very long story involving a photograph of a woman I believe to be my grandmother that was sent to my great grandmother in Norway. My grandmother Mary Mullen, arrived in the USA from Ireland in 1893. She went directly to the Freshwater area of Humboldt County where her sister was the wife of Ole Hansen a shingle mill owner operator. She married my grandfather, Martin Gross, in 1894.(He emigrated from Norway in 1886. My grandmother died in 1901. My gr. grandmother also died in 1901 in Norway. Amongst some deeds and photographs were several taken in Eureka, California by two different studios. I would lik to know what years each of the studios was in operation in Eureka. This portrait is the only picture I had ever seen of my grandmother . It only took over 100 years to see her image! The items were found in an overlooked green wooden box and just stored safely in a closet by the varuius leasors of the family farm Grunevik up the fjord from Flekkefjord, Norway. A Genealogical genie in Norway contacted the current residents (not related) and he told her about the box. My genie made a special boat trip to the farm and took marvelous digital photos of everything. My grandfather , great grandmother and gr. gr. grandmother were all born on this property in a very remote (still) and gorgeous area on the fjord. When I saw the portrait of my grandmother, it took my breath away because I could see who my sister, the late Pat Roscoe resembled. Sorry to blabber-I get excited, Helen Mc